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A contentious issue during this legislative session will be the matter of reintroducing tolls to Connecticut highways. I have mixed emotions about this. On the one hand the state could use the dough to fix our roads and bridges. On the negative side, we are looking at three months of people using the phrase "For Whom the Bell Tolls." "For Whom the Bell Tolls," is a novel by Ernest Hemingway. The plot does not center on a courageous but doomed ex-pat standing in a lonely booth collecting quarters. This, of course, will not stop anyone from using the phrase during the tolls debate. One positive thing about the proposal is that there won't be any toll...

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A contentious issue during this legislative session will be the matter of reintroducing tolls to Connecticut highways.
I have mixed emotions about this.
On the one hand the state could use the dough to fix our roads and bridges.
On the negative side,...

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